This is his basic bio:
His mother was named Merope. She ran away from her family home. No mention of her mother, but lived with father and brother, who abused her.
She used either a love potion or charm to get a handsome non-magical man to marry her. Son was Tom Riddle.
Father left before he was born. She showed up at orphanage pregnant, died during child birth.
Tom Riddle raised in orphanage, could talk to snakes, terrorized other kids, tortured and killed animals.
Went to Hogwarts. Dumbledore suspected he was evil. Learned about horcruxes (killing a person which splits the soul and using a spell to put the split part of the soul into another object.) Began killing people, framing other people for their deaths.
Killed his father.
Rose to power, tried killing Harry Potter, spell backfired, destroying his body, but he didn't die because parts of his spirit were in other objects.
Wow how very MK Ultraesque.
I didn’t let our kid follow the wizard stuff. white witchcraft against black witchcraft is still witchcraft. I was attacked constantly by the “at least they are reading” eye-rolling, disapproving soccer mom crowd. I didn’t try and stop anyone from the stuff but was harshly judged for not partaking.
I noticed an explosion in bookstores of real craft books after the harmless series. After the kiddies got through the “harmless” series there were plenty of harder spell books to quench their curiosity. In fact the hard stuff heavily outweighs anything else today.
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That song is to depressing.
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Heard just now on radio Mayor shutting down playgrounds in New York. Hmmmmm.